If you haven't heard, the gaming world's abuzz with the news that six key ex-Rare developers have gathered to form 'Playtonic Games', and are working on what is being called a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie!

I heard about this. It's great! I wish they could get copyright to Donkey Kong franchise. In the future, it is even possible that they'll work for Nintendo. Now, they are looking for composer. Check out this photo with David Wise: https://twitter.com/PlaytonicGames/stat ... 48?lang=en

That is pretty cool. I don't really keep current with games since I don't have any new systems, but this makes me want to have whatever system they make games for (hopefully PC, since I have one of those already )

I'm so glad that these guys still have a strong passion to create the kind of games that Rareware were known for in the 90s.

It sounds like both David Wise and Grant Kirkhope are keen to provide tunes, so that's fantastic! Wise's work is easily some of my favourite music ever written, but a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie just wouldn't be right without Kirkhope's merry melodies.

Oh and Phyre, it's perhaps a little hard to read, but that little white label in the corner of the environmental concept art above claims that not only will PC gamers have the opportunity to play this game, but they'll most likely get to play it before the official release, via Steam Early Access — a great opportunity to test it out and let Playtonic know if anything needs tweaking.

As I mentioned, the game will apparently be available on PC, so that should mean you'll have a chance to play it without having to buy new hardware. Of course, that's not to say it'll run well on your computer — that'll depend on how capable your machine is, and how well optimised/demanding the game is, etc...

And this is actually our 7th birthday, believe it or not; the 6th was last year! Either way, it's nice to be gifted such marvellous news.

Spoiler!

You kinda missed the sixth anniversary of the Atlas, so I shouldn't be too surprised:

Oh, by the way, Qyz, I was wondering where you were getting the idea that this is the spiritual successor of Banjo-Kazooie. I read everything on their website and didn't see anything about this being specifically a Banjo style game. Is it on their twitter? I don't use twitter so I didn't look there

I have heard about this before and I am glad to see this happening. Rare may not be the company it once was, but at least the people who used to be there are still making games! There's one thing I'd like to know, though... is there any mention of which consoles this game will come out on? I hope, at the very least, it will show up on Wii U and/or the 3DS. (The Wii U could certainly use it, seeing that it barely has any games...) Not to mention, since Rare used to be close to Nintendo, it would be surprising if this game didn't show up on a Nintendo system...

God.. I feel guilty... I just upped my backing money to include the boxed PC version of the game... The gamer in me really really wants a physical copy... (p.s. < most appropriate emoticon ever for this situation...)